This is so weird! I'm a very new user, got Linux working with the help of this group, using Lilo to boot Windows in the first partition (HDA1), and Linux in HDA3 (swap) and HDA4 (file system). I left HDA5 as DOS Fat 16, but am not using it for anything yet.
I just installed Wordperfect 6.0 under Windows. (Not ready to try it under Linux yet.) When it started up a tutorial popped up on the screen and I went through a demo of some of the features. Big Mistake! The program seemed to go into some kind of endless loop, and I could only get out of it by killing the task. Now when I try to boot Linux I get the following: Partition check: HDA: HDA1 HDA2 < HDA5 > HDA3 HDA4 attempt to access beyond end of device 03:02: rw=0, want=2, limit=1 EXT2-fs: unable to read superblock attempt to access beyond end of device EXT2-fs: unable to read superblock MINIX-fs: unable to read superblock [MS-DOS FS Rel 12, FAT 0, check=n, conv=b, uid=0, gid=0, umask=022, bmap] [me=0x0, cs=0, #f=0, fs=0, fl=0, ds=0, de=0, data=0, se=0, ts=0, ls=0, rc=0, fc=4294967295] transaction block size=512 attempt to access beyond end of device 03:02: rw=0, want=33, limit=1 isofs_read_super: bread failed, dev 03:02 iso-blknum 16 block 32 kernel panic: vfs: unable to mount root fs on 03:02 I guess Wordperfect probably doesn't work well under Windows. Could it have "gone nuts" and written stuff beyond the end of the Windows partition? I'll just re-install Linux since I haven't used it for much of anything yet. But I'd really like to know what went wrong. I was hoping that anything that happened in the Windows partition couldn't affect Linux in its own partition, like viruses, programs running amok, etc. Any thoughts on this? Peter
